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A.J. | Lifelong educator | Founding Principal @ The Greater Dayton School | Following education, edtech, value investing, crypto & other.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

@MitchForest If/when you’re ready to pilot this in a school outside Alpha, please let me know. I’d love to take a look.

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

I have a ton of empathy for @Alphaschool skeptics, because I doubted it myself when I joined 10 months ago.

I was also one of the louder skeptics about EdTech, all along.

My recent piece could have been titled "How I Was Humbled by AI and Learned That Does Can, in Fact, Change the Potential of EdTech."

I don't expect everyone to see it that way, because you haven't gone on my journey, nor @C_Hendrick's, nor our team's.

But it is my conclusion. And I suspect I've done more time developing AI-enabled software this year than you have.

[Front Office Sports @FOS]

Dodgers player Alex Call is calling out MLB and broadcasters over the ads during postseason games.

"Can we please get the soft porn ads off playoff broadcasts? My son wants to watch baseball with Dada, but how do I justify that when a half-naked woman could come on screen anytime?? This is America’s Pastime. Parents shouldn’t have to worry about this."

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

Go Brew Crew
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[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

Give to The Greater Dayton School

[The Money Cruncher, CPA @money_cruncher]

🚨IRS just introduced a new tax credit up to $1,700, or $3,400 for married couples, starting 2027.

It's called the Education Freedom Tax Credit

Here's everything you need to know:

[Kareem Farah @Kareemfarah23]

Today, Modern Classrooms Project is announcing that we have raised $12 million to build a free Tier 1 math curriculum for middle and high school, grounded in cognitive science.

The more time I spend in math education, the more concerned I get. Outcomes have been falling for more than a decade, and the steepest declines are among the lowest-performing students.

Meanwhile, many of the leading cognitive scientists and learning scientists have been sounding the alarm that their research is not being applied at scale in math classrooms. We think they might be right.

So we are building a curriculum that treats cognitive science as its north star. We plan to launch middle school in summer 2027 and high school in summer 2028.

Three things to know about what we are building:

1. It will be free. All lessons and materials, teacher-facing and student-facing, will be publicly available online, printable, and modifiable.
2. It will be built with the researchers. In the coming weeks, we will announce a research advisory committee of leading learning scientists. We will work as hard as we can to make sure the structure, design, and underlying content align with what cognitive science tells us about how students, especially struggling learners, master math.
3. It will work with or without technology. Modern Classrooms Project has spent years at the intersection of technology and classroom instruction. This curriculum will have two clear implementation pathways. One that is completely paper-based, built around whole-group, teacher-facilitated instruction. The other will be designed to leverage technology to enable flexible pacing, mastery-based progressions, and increased 1-1 and small-group support from educators.

Perhaps most importantly, we want to understand what works. While we have conviction that following cognitive science is the right path, we are deeply committed to trying to move the field forward so that students can achieve their full potential in math, particularly students farthest from opportunity.

To learn more about what we are building and explore ways to get involved, go to https://t.co/Oz9lTS62hS.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

I’d look at Evertutor for math. It’s expensive, and their data dashboard for school level data isn’t fully built out yet, but we had good results from our initial pilot with the (70th percentile with NWEA growth).

Another option is Goblins math. More affordable than Evertutor and a similar product.

We’re also using kinship AI. I don’t know the results yet because we’re early in the pilot. But layers a data engine on top of math academy.

For k-2 reading, project read ai is very interesting. Albeit, same issue - no school level data dashboard yet.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

Draft you can post:
The 8 teams still in the 2026 MLB postseason, ranked by payroll:
1-Dodgers — $338.0M
2-Yankees — $304.6M
3_Braves — $263.9M
4-Padres — $223.9M
5-Brewers — $143.5M
6-Rays — $98.3M
7-White Sox — $98.0M
8-Guardians — $74.2M
The two best records in baseball (Brewers, Rays) are outside the top 15 in payroll. Cleveland is the cheapest team left.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

Per Grok:

•Fact-checks by neurologists and medical sources find no supporting peer-reviewed studies, clinical trials, or verifiable neurologist behind the claim; cortisol is regulated by the HPA axis, not tongue posture.

•The simple action may offer brief relaxation via distraction or facial muscle release but lacks evidence for direct, superior cortisol reduction compared to established methods.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

@yiran__c @ScribbleDotApp If this ever becomes an app for schools - school > teacher > class > student dashboard data + the ai writing tutor content - I’d love for my school to book a demo.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

@NielsHoven Generally true, but not universally. At The Greater Dayton School, we do self paced learning. It works great.

I’m a career educator.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

@ScottRoberts How Not to Speak of God.

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

A dedicated AI tutor like those at @Alphaschool have transformed education allowing each child to learn at their own pace. Check out the outcomes at Alpha School and compare with NYC public schools.

AI offers the potential to fix NYC education, but sadly NYC’s failing schools would rather protect teachers at the expense of students by prohibiting AI in the schools.

[Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick]

A strange paradox I've with noticed with the new models:
1.) AI has dramatically improved in the evaluation of writing.
2.) AI has dramatically deteriorated in the production of writing.

[Drew Bent @drew_bent]

Claude for Teachers is now available to schools and districts as a free enterprise offering.

Last month we launched for individual educators. Now districts can also get one centrally managed org with SSO, role-based access controls, domain claiming.

I continue to think one of the most important things we can do with AI in education is empower teachers. Excited to see what districts do with this.

[SpeedTrapp @SpeedTrapp2010]

@mcuban There’s a better way. Adaptive apps and ai tutors allow students to work at their instructional level. Every single student. It’s the way of the future, and it’s here.

[Rahm Emanuel @RahmEmanuel]

The problem with America’s education system is that we’ve given up on 50% of our kids by 3rd grade.

[Neeraj Kapoor @neejkapoor]

who can help me integrate aspects of @smorrisey's word mapping program into my tutoring program!? I'm out of depth but want the best stuff for our kids!

[Claude @claudeai]

We're introducing Claude for Teachers: free access to premium Claude capabilities for verified K-12 educators in the US, with a library of teaching skills and a direct connection to evidence-based curricula, mapped to academic standards in all 50 states.

https://t.co/5hZZijVPCV